How to identify apple stem-ends and calyxes from defects is still a challenging project due to the complexity of the process. It is know that the stem-ends and calyxes could not appear at the same image. Therefore, a contaminated apple distinguishing method is developed in this article. That is, if there are two or more doubtful blobs on an apple's image,… (More)

The cherry tomatoes online sorting according to their maturity is an important procedure after harvest. This research proposed an automated cherry tomato grading system base on machine vision. Three images of different angles are obtained from each cherry tomato, allowing the inspection of approximately 90% of the fruit surface. 9 features were extracted… (More)

Fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering is based on minimizing the fuzzy within cluster scatter matrix trace but FCM neglects the between cluster scatter matrix trace that controls the distances between the class centroids. Based on the principle of cluster centers separation, fuzzy cluster centers separation (FCCS) clustering is an extended fuzzy c-means (FCM)… (More)

On the common systems, the fruits placed on rollers are rotating while moving, they are observed from above by one camera. In this case, the parts of the fruit near the points where the rotation axis crosses its surface (defined as rotational poles) are not observed. Most researchers did not consider how to manage several images representing the whole… (More)

Nowadays the quality inspect of soft capsules is mainly by manual. Despite the intensive of this work, the accuracy of inspection by manual is very low. This paper proposed soft capsules online sorting system based on machine vision. The inspection process are following: (1) soft capsules were placed on rollers are rotating while moving. The image of each… (More)